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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Ezra Pound

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

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